First we start of with legendary John Frusciante grooves, and then we go to the part where we actually learn how to emulate his sound and a couple of great mixing tricks in order to achieve that genuine "Stadium Arcadium" sound.

Welcome to my first lesson here on GMC. Todays topic is warming up, I will show you what I usually do to warm myself up before a show or recording and give you some ideas about possible variations that might make things a bit more interesting to play. You will come across lots of chromatic runs, scale fragments and a lot of alternate picking.

Course designed to help you understand and boost your improvising skills. From a complete beginner to advanced concepts - a valuable tool for every musician. This is the first lesson in which we are focusing on how to define improvisation and C major chord triad (within C major key).

We'll create a Middle Eastern sounding lead with the use of the Phrygian dominant scale. I also included some detailed spoken explanations for your convenience and all the examples are recorded over a click.

Tags: Middle East, lead, theory

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